My Extreme Productivity System (Learn ANY Programming Language) 

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I suck at consistency as well, I've really noticed that tackling goals in smaller steps actually lets me tackle them rather than waiting for the right time to do it in 8 hour increments. Luckily I'm still a little boy and can afford these mistakes lol nice c++ course btw :)

Thank you for this. I always struggle with staying motivated and focused. A lot of what you go through I can relate to. I read a book called Driven to Distraction and I found myself relating to so many of the stories in that book. I have not been officially diagnosed with add but definitely have many of the signs.

I don't usually comment on RU-vid videos, but I like the way you lay out information in your other videos & this topic is of great interest to me. So I'll leave this here in case people less familiar with these concepts can see and will be interested. During the last few years, I've learned of a few different tools which have boosted my productivity, both generally and specifically for learning. The 3 most useful points are as follows: 1. Effective note taking - Written in Markdown format - Using Sublime Text 4 with Markdown Preview & Markdown Editing - Create text document templates for future note taking based on different subjects. 2. User friendly Automation to Create, Save and Load the most important notes rapidly. - Keyboard Maestro software on MacOS is an absolute godsend for this. This software is the single reason why I only want to use MacOS for years to come. - The Developer has created and refined it in such a way that even non-technical people can unlock huge automation benefits without a huge learning curve (compared to if this software wasn't available). Plus it has a superb community with useful Macros and who are generally very helpful. - An example Macro I use is to easily access my customised "cheat sheets" about a particular subject (e.g. Useful Unix commands) 3. Creating custom Flashcards with SRS (Space Repetition Software) to commit newfound knowledge to long term memory. - Anki Software has been great for me and it's free (not even with annoying ads) - Create the flashcards based on your own notes once you're confident you have a solid understanding of what you're learning. - Key considerations for these: + Keep the notes as brief as possible + Ensure the notes will make sense to YOU specifically + Obviously ensure the information is correct! The last thing you want to do is memorise bad information. Whenever I've found flashcards online about any subject in the past, I've generally found them to be unhelpful with either too much information, or not the information I need. Creating my own flashcards has been super helpful for me. I find this setup a joy to use and have found it helpful for learning other subjects in my career and also generally. My next subjects to work through though will be your Algorithms & Data Structures playlist, followed by an introduction to a programming language (probably Python) as a hobby. I'll also certainly try your suggestion of doing a crash course to understand general concepts before getting fully into it, so thanks for that!

Thanks Caleb .. I always trust your word on how to do things.. Will definitely follow your system for productivity.

This video is full of some really great advice! The crash course idea is really great for giving a place for future ideas learned to go. Quite literally like laying a mental foundation to build upon. Keep up the amazing content!

Man, I thank you for the service you provide for all of us, thanks to you I've learned C++, thanks again.

Its crazy how your Java tutorials got me into Programming back when you first posted them, now I’m using your tutorials to tackle C++!!

Hey Caleb thanks for your beginner's guide on c, it was my gateway into it as a first programming language. Anyhow, dude I had this same realization in college. At the time I was the exact same way you describe yourself to be, and *needed* to get more bang for my buck out of a very finite period of daily studying. What I'd like to add is that there's a game-changegingly powerful way through the bottleneck of how much focus is available at, say, hour 4, and that's meditation. No joke, once you get good at even basic mindfullness, you can just stop for 2-5 minutes and pump up focus from 65% to at least 80% for example. And if you get deep into the bread-and-butter practices of any major buddhist school, that's gonna go way up. I seriously laughed out loud when you (someone whose opinion I take seriously) said that a person can just optimize for focus and be safe in their learning journey. You can't picture how much I'm relieved, because these days I can hit about 8 daily hours (sprinkled with breaks) and maintain 100% focus throughout, or at least 90+. It doesn't bring me any suffering and at the end of it I'm not particularly tired. Time management with other daily stuff seems to be the only thing holding me back from my goal of 12 hours daily. Anyhow, Caleb and anyone else interested, I seriously endorse meditation. If anyone wants to start, look up Sam Harris' guided meditations on YT or his Waking Up app (he gives free accounts to anyone who asks, btw).

Thank you for this, I have some of the same issues where I want to try and learn something different every day and get easily bored so this video helped out a lot.

Can you please show us your setup as a programmer, your workstation, pc setup, internals of your pc, and your pc configurations. I am really interested in this.

Caleb you are awesome really i love your content ❤

Thanks buddy, useful content 🎉

I think you do pretty good. I learned the top down approach when I decided to learn Django. Very helpful advice.

I started to take notes when I first started but I was never good at it and stopped at some point. Recently I've been using chatgpt to write comments in my code and to help update Readme files. Your video has inspired me to take writing and documentation more seriously

I have no odea about coding or software stuff, but o really enjoy your mindset/productivity content😊

thank u so much

You're the best!

One of my favorite languages!

Great video! I stopped using Notion. Have had any issues with accidentally deleting something on notion and unable to retrieve back that data by undoing, just simply wouldn't work. Second perspective is so interesting, have never thought of it before

slow and steady wins the race

80/20 principle in the hizzy. 80% of the outcome comes from 20% of the effort/causes. You definitely hit a point of disminishing returns.

But deliberate daily practice with a feedback loop to say "What is the one thing I'm weak at that that I must work on to help me accomplish everything I need to get closer to my goals in the next hour?" pays dividends. More importantly, you should ask yourself "What are the specific traits of a positive anomaly that has accomplished these goals leaps and bounds above everyone else that I must obtain so I can accomplish these goals?" And yes, writing with pen and paper is slow, conscious thinking with style ;)

Sounds like you are a scanner personality!

I'll first learn the vocabulary aka jargons that are used and I'll tell myself what I want in English Next I'll learn the structure of whatever programming language you want to learn I think every programming language comes down to structure and vocabulary 🤞

do daily quests, here are exaples of quests to follow. nice. this video made me realise that i need to basically recreate documentation in my style with way better examples than usual garbage people get there, like how to write hello world instead of concatenation of text object contents numbers and variables, like everything you would need to use it in one example, I hate reading documentation that is posted on internet they have heaps of text that is irrelevant and the part you need is like one or two sentences mixed up in there. and one good example would solve all the problems there. Thanks I'll try to do that for Java and maybe Guys here would like it. it will take months though :D

Rust tutorial please

what do i do after learning basics C++ and object oriented programming concepts ?

ok

The office is full of interruptions, my house if full of interruptions. I need to rent office space😂 seriously tho, I needed this!

for me I'm at 100% for like the first 12 minutes, then it drops to about 20%

365 hours -> 15 days -> 2 weeks and 1 day

Can I come live with you. I'll sell everything fly over just to learn code

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As you roll out the paid courses, will you delete the programming tutorials already uploaded?

Get checked for ADHD !! :) :)